202 WOODY PLANTS 



Glabrescent. Becoming glabrous. 



Glabrous. Without hairs. 



Gland. A small protuberance, consisting of one or more secret- 

 ing cells. 



Glandular. Bearing glands, or any protuberance having the ap- 

 pearance of a gland. 



Glaucous. With a bluish-white bloom which may be rubbed off. 



Globose. Spherical or nearly so, globular. 



Granular. Minutely roughened. 



Hastate. Shaped like an arrowhead, but with the basal lobes point- 

 ing outward nearly at right angles. 



Heath-like. Fine-stemmed and low, with small persistent leaves. 



Herbaceous, Herb-like, soft. 



Hirsute. Pubescent with rather coarse or stiff, usually relatively 

 long hairs. 



Hispid. Pubescent with bristly, rigid hairs. 



Hoary. Covered with close, whitish or grayish-white hairs. 



Imbricated. Overlapping, as the shingles of a house. 



Incised. Cut sharply and more or less deeply and irregularly into 

 lobes. 



Inequilateral. Unequal-sided; oblique at the base. 



Inflorescence. The flowering portion of a plant, and especially 

 its arrangement. 



Introduced. Brought in from another region, especially from 

 Europe or Asia, intentionally or accidentally. 



Keel. A ridge on the back of a bud -scale, etc. 



Key. A fruit furnished with a wing or leaf-like expansion. 



Lacerate. Irregularly cleft as if torn. 



Laciniate. Cut into narrow, pointed lobes or segments. 



Lanceolate. About four times longer than broad, widest about a 

 third above the base. 



Lateral. Said of buds which occur on the sides of the twig. 



Leaf-base. See leaf-cushion. 



Leaf-cushion. A raised base on which the leaf-scar sometimes 

 appears. 



Leaflet. One of the divisions of a compound leaf. 



Leaf-scar. A patch differing in color and texture from the rest 

 of the twig and representing the place from which the leaf 

 has fallen. 



Legume. A simple dry fruit, opening along two lines, as in beans, 



Lenticels. Small areas of loose tissue which appear as dots or 

 warts on the surface of twigs. 



Linear. Long and narrow, with nearly parallel margins, at least 

 six times longer than broad. 



Lobed. A rounded segment or division of any organ; (of a blade) 

 more or less cut toward the midvein or base. 



